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The advantage of pinging IPs is that you don’t have to have a working DNS setup to test your connection. If DNS does work, then your connection probably works,
by snazz 8y ago
The advantage of pinging IPs is that you don’t have to have a working DNS setup to test your connection. If DNS does work, then your connection probably works, too.
- 1_player 8y agoIn this case one should run "ping -n", otherwise ping will hang trying to resolve the IP into an hostname, if the DNS is misbehaving or not responding.
- sathackr 8y agowhat default(included in OS) ping utility tries to reverse-lookup an address before pinging, and hangs if it can't. I've never observed this in any version of Windows nor Linux.